- Swinging Out of Reach -
(Halo (c) Microsoft Studios, Bungie & related creators. Red vs. Blue (c) Rooster Teeth. Text (c) L.Q. Coverdale.)
When there is a shadow
Swinging out of the darkness and fire
I hear sirens and screaming
And everyone's flinging
Their arms in the air
As if to reach death
And to embrace it
Glass and blue, green and ash
Swinging out of the ships and spaces
I hear howling and breaking
And everyone's creaking
Their voices ripped
From scorched-black chords
Sleep and weight, all on my chest
Swinging out of anxiety and black
I hear crying and moaning
And everyone's singing
As they always have been
And I am hallucinating
Contact and illusion, all within sights
Swinging out of need and desperation
I hear orders and marching
Fear and then silence
I break a broken record
It's always a forgotten rhyme
Numbers and figures, gone far and away
Swinging out of sky and stormy clouds above
I hear radios chirping
The world is far-flinging
And I've gone to do right
If such a thing can be done
Stars and the void, reaching far beyond,
Swinging out of plasma and fragments of light,
And they'll always be swinging,
And they'll always be slinging,
Out of their reach,
And out of my mind
